I got my degree, an associates in Hotel/Restaurant Management. I just applied for my Bachelors in Culinary Arts at Johson and Wales University, Providence, Rhode Island. Still writing out of Memphis, for now. I lost my mother three years ago...and, tonight, I updated one of my stories for the first time since then. I still talk to Nilah. I don't know if I'm going to come out of my block or not, but I'm hopeful. Bear with me.

Step Lightly,

Mikanis

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-General update. I've started taking my writing more seriously, as you may have noticed...therefore, expect slightly longer update times.

Upcoming Stories:

Much Ado About Nothing: Light met the detective L through the most impersonal means possible. When finally introduced, he sees something that can be broken, a project waiting to unfold. After all, if he cannot master the one mind, how can he expect to tame the masses? L is presented with a new challenge when his only Kira-suspect decides to dance with him in a downward spiral of mental games. What happens when they hit the bottom is a mystery he's not sure he wants to solve. The stakes are high, but the tensions even higher and at this point, backing out is not an option.

Desperation And Silence: (working title) Matsuda never understood himself until Light Yagami stepped into his life. At a crucial point in his career, the young man seemed to appear from nothing, a guiding hand that remained steady upon his shoulder. His confidante, and friend. It wasn't until Light began to reshape his life that Matsuda realized that he didn't understand Light...and that he likely never would.

Phlegethon: The Descent: I have graciously been granted permission to write a spin off/ companion Story to Nilahxapiel's Phlegethon River. Essentially, it's the story from Light's point of view, from imprisonment along his downward spiral into madness. Shall be interesting, yus indeed. It's going to be dark, morbid, and entirely Light-central...so if you can't sit still through my psychological babble, this isn't the story for you. I mean really...I plan at least twenty five chapters, and the majority of it takes place in his JAIL CELL.

When I get the urge to write, I have been known to drive myself into temporary insomnia. I like coffee. I like cigarettes. I am addicted to Rain, Stress, and Cooking. I have run out of things to say about myself.

That being said, let me state this. I do not believe in fans. I believe in readers. When you read my work, you're reading something that I took the time to create, and that I take very seriously. When you take me seriously, you make it worth my while. Therefore, I have no fans. I have readers that care enough to look over something that I wanted to share with them. My readers are appreciated, and never, ever, taken for granted.

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Things Regarding My Work:

This is a lovely slide-show made by Draculina17, to the theme of Concerto! Power to the Mozart! Thank you Draculina!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8yWssh9Zvw

And a Second By Product Of A Sick Society, dedicated to the same story.

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=EnsCWWw1D6w

Another by a reader, TheEviloTwin and FarutoFan on Youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5IOGHM-ae8

An L cosplay (Playing an Amazing violin), byMephistophilesGirl on Youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpybUuIbNdA

About my Writing:

What you can expect: I am not a nice person, and I love to climb inside a character's skull and do a bit of re-wiring. I'm deathly serious, and psychological to a fault. I do not believe in happy endings, I believe in realistic ones. I will either write an AU story, or I will stick to canon. I will not change the ultimate ending a fraction to suit my fantasy or yours. That is why there is Of Music, my AU romance...So I don't feel quite as bad for KILLING THEM. (Sob)

Ahem...moving on. Tension is my darling bastard.

Current Stories:

Truth is actually a series, something I call my snapshot writing. I've always been terrible about the underdogs, the supporting characters. I love writing things left unsaid, portraying different thought processes, giving theories on WHY a character does what he does. Every character is a different person, and they are an Entire person...they think and feel just like the leads do. Thus is the beauty of fanfiction. It allows you to fill in those gaps. These are actually individual scenes by the different characters, some thinking, some explaining, some learning...This one updates randomly.

Morning Star is the sequel to Welcome to Wammy, and picks up around the end of the seventh Manga. Matt and Mello are estranged, and when they find each other again, they meet two completely different people. Where Welcome to Wammy was about accepting himself, Morning Star is about Mello coming to terms with the fact that people change and that he can either move past that, or spend his last days alone. Still conflicted, possibly tasteful yaoi before it's finished, but there is tension, power, and the psychological aspect of the story that you should be accustomed to seeing from me. Beta-ed by the incredibly intelligent Anja-chan.

Ashes to Ashes is the one where I mess with Near. O.o It's a companion story to Welcome to Wammy, and elaborates on the section towards the end that I condensed, where they're roommates. Near arrives at Wammy as the sole survivor to his small family's murder, trauma-mute and incurably introverted. Through some intensive work on the part of L, and later some unintentional work by Mello, he slowly becomes the young man that we see in the Manga. I expect it to be a twisted, neurotic, half-horror story, followed by a sequel from Near's later years. Will Be Beta-ed by the also incredibly intelligent Angelic Demoness.

Of Music: Just typing those two words makes my fingers ache. This is my epic, my baby, my grand finale. It will be the best piece of LXLight fanfiction that I ever manage to accomplish, and it's happening because I'm biting the bullet and slowing my ass down. It's an AU set to the tune of classical music. It features an older, accomplished Light, and and older, still inane L, and one hell of a storyline. My plot frightens me, and I hope to scare the hell out of you too, before it's all said and done.

What started as an education in murder degenerates further into a game of manipulation that promises to kill all the players. B and Light cooperate to destroy the detective with whom they are both obsessed, only to find that they've sprung their own trap.

Songs for a Kingdom Now Lost sequel. In their Junior year at Irai, the competition in being L's apprentice is taking its toll on Mello and Near's relationship. Not just the position, but L himself, who is falling victim to Near's... hormones? L x M x N.

Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth." But some things are always true, and one of them was that none of them could ever be God.

The adventures of Near's plushies that are all disturbingly dead-on likenesses of everyone he knows. Some are happy, some aren't, but all have plushies! 4th installment: 'Rester REALLY needs a vacation. B Plushie/Mello Plushie.'

AU. Mello and Matt are top students at a prestigious art school, both of whom are in a creative rut. When a new student, Near, arrives, the three are pushed together. Maybe they can help each other out if they dont kill each other first. Mello x Near.

V for VendettaDeath Note crossover. The world's best detective is asked by the world court to investigate Chancellor Sutler, and to gather evidence for his prosecution. Suddenly, the Old Bailey is destroyed, and another letter is on the scene. Codename V.

Light and L have escaped Japan and have started a new life in America. But their troubles are far from over. In this new land there are much more frightening things than mass murderers and death. After all, what could be more terrifying than feelings?

Raito is brutally assaulted and decides to end it all –and what better way then to admit he’s Kira and let his nemesis do it for him? Of course, things with L can never be so simple. LxRaito Completed, and now being revised.

Light and L struggle with their desire to defeat the other, but also at the same time long to be friends. Their conflicted emotions make for a complicated storyline and sometimes can inspire both humor and drama. Contains very mild romance.

I wish that I could keep you in a precious Chinese box, On Sundays I would pray for you so it would never stop, I'd love to hear you laugh tonight, I'd love to hear you weep, I'd love to listen to you while you're screaming in your sleep! BxMello MATURE

Light is at the theatre, escaping from his life as he does every performance. Fate hands him her calling card in the way of a stranger sitting across the room. Can Light maintain his life when this one man manages to slip into it like he belongs there? AU

To reign is worth ambition though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav'n." Paradise Lost, John Milton. Things change...further more, People change, and to know himself, he must first know another. Sequel to Welcome to Wammy. Mature

It was simple really, to hate the man that he was becoming...and deliciously easy to manipulate the fragile delusions that L justified himself with. Water can follow the finest threads of the web. L was weak... and B was not. -B and L, Mind Game X Torture

As a fanfiction author, your only virtue is to make the characters seem more human. You are borrowing someone else's imagination, if only to make them more dear to your own. Do them justice. Make them Real...Make them Human. If not that, why bother?

L takes a gamble and makes Light an offer. Once the pieces fall into place, it's a race to see who can outmaneuver the other...and a long series of mistakes. Set just after Yotsuba arc, when Light has his memories. COMPLETE!

“It is November 30th, 2004. Final Records, interview number fourteen…Persona 1 of the 54 reclaimed by the Suspect Reassignment Program instituted by L Lawliet in the year 2000.” Roger sighed, and leaned back in his chair. L was really dead.

I walked towards him, intending to pass him and waltz right on up those stairs and disappear…just another nameless, inconsequential face in his night. Perhaps that was too submissive, because it caught his attention.- An edgy one-shot with Matt and Mello.

But when children grow up, they stop pretending. When the light comes back, there are no more shadows…and we are once again ourselves…more. Complete, and apart." Doesn't fit under Truth. Implied Yaoi, LxLight, one shot. No clue on who the speaker is. Kani

I swore I'd never write one, but here's some fun with L and Light. Slight OOC, but no warnings to speak of. The image of this just wouldn't go away. Just for fun. I really can't stay, Baby it's cold outside, I've got to go away, But Baby it's cold outside

Mello has just arrived at Wammy House at the young age of nine. Can he adjust to his new life after so long without an identity? M for Mature due to touchy subject matter, violence, language, and games I play with the human mind. Mikanis

Near has just arrived at Wammy's house at the young age of seven. Trauma mute, and incurably introverted, how will he adjust to the entirely open ended story they've offered? Rated M for Mature themes. Spoilers for character names, not much else. Mikanis

Sequel to Violins, Light. When Light regains his Memories, The Game is born. How can L keep himself from playing when the young genius at his side plays so very well? How long until one or both fall, tripped up by their own rules in this battle of Pride?

L has a second addiction. Light has a plan that's going to get him killed. When everything falls apart, the road is set to take a different path. How far astray can these two go before something breaks? My first DN fic, learning the boys. Sequel is better